TIPTOE

The TIPTOE adventure began in Paris in 2015 with the desire to create furniture that is beautiful, useful and sustainable.

“We dreamed of durable furniture that would have several lives alongside their owners, affordable objects that tell stories because they have been designed with care and without concession in terms of quality. TIPTOE furniture reflects an optimistic, creative and responsible modernity.”

TIPTOE’s demand for products of impeccable quality is nourished by a family tradition that spans three generations of entrepreneurs.

In 1947, Henri Bourgeaux, the grandfather of Matthieu Bourgeaux (the founder of TIPTOE), founded a company near Chamonix in Haute-Savoie that specialized in metal machining and in particular an activity called “décolletage”.

The company was then taken over by Matthieu’s father and uncle and more recently by his brother. The family workshop is one of the main partners of TIPTOE and manufactures each year thousands of mechanical parts that make up our various products.

TIPTOE was born in 2015 by revisiting in a modern and unexpected way a key concept of French design: the modular table leg. With this first product, the ambition to create a universe of beautiful, useful and durable products, both well thought and well produced, is taking shape.

TIPTOE sees itself as the heir of an illustrious line of French designers who have marked the history of furniture with their free and avant-garde vision. The first concept of a modular leg was born in 1972 under the pencil of François Arnal with the “T9 clamp” base. In 1982, Philippe Starck revisited the concept for a creation for Les 3 Suisses before Philippe Nigro proposed his own vision of the system with the T.U. table in the 2000s.

TIPTOE is a company with a mission. This means that our environmental commitment is included in the company’s legislative framework. This status legally obliges us to respect our commitments to sustainability.

Our mission is articulated in 3 axes: that of proposing sustainable furniture, well thought and well produced. Our mission is to accelerate the awareness of environmental issues in our field and finally, to promote a positive business model.

This mission serves as a guideline for our CSR issues and allows us to engage the responsibility of the company on the long term if in the future we do not respect our commitments.

TIPTOE is available at the following independent stores.